Box 27

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Contains correspondence with New Zealand astronomer Leslie Comrie and Radcliffe College president Ada Comstock.

Scope and Contents: Contains correspondence related to the Observatory's funding and budgets, Observatory and University staffing and professorship decisions, Harvard's Tercentenary celebrations, educational radio broadcasting, the college's geology curriculum, and invitations to social gatherings. Also contains a letter from Shapley congratulating Conant on his election as president of Harvard University and a letter from Shapley recommending the appointment of Annie Jump Cannon to the position of William...

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Contains correspondence related to the Observatory's funding and budgets, Observatory and University staffing and professorship decisions, Harvard's Committee of Eight, and invitations to social gatherings. Also contains discussions of "the refugee problem," including a February 9, 1939 letter from Shapley asking Conant to "urge Mr. Herbert Hoover to take some vigorous steps in the interest of the large project of aiding the academic victims of Central Europe."

Scope and Contents: This subseries contains correspondence between Shapley and a variety of correspondents, including astronomers from the United States and abroad, such as Walter Sydney Adams, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and Sergei Gaposchkin, Boris Gerasimovic, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Frank Hogg and Helen Sawyer Hogg, A.O. Leuschner, Knut Emil Lundmark, Willem Jacob Luyten, Donald H. Menzel, S.A. Mitchell, Ernst Julius Öpik, Pieter Johannes van Rhijn, Henry Norris Russell, Frank Schlesinger, and Otto Struve....

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Contains correspondence with Jean Conklin, banker and amateur astronomer Gustavus Wynne Cook, architectural firm Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott, pianist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology curator Harold Jefferson Coolidge, Jr., Harvard University Mathematics Department chair Julian Coolidge, Boston businessman T. Jefferson Coolidge, and General Electric vice president William D. Coolidge.

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Contains correspondence related to British politician Alfred Duff Cooper, correpondence with United States Senator Royal S. Copeland, and Corning Glass Works.